Manduarisawa

The Parish Factory and the Bishop:

2024-10-10T18:20:35+00:00

Abstract: The following text analyzes the representations of "ultramontane politics" and its relationship with ecclesiastical heritage during the episcopate of Dom Antônio Castilho Brandão in Alagoas (1901-1910). The study focuses on the period following the Proclamation of the Republic, seeking to understand how Dom Antônio, aligned with the Catholic project of the time, managed the Church's assets, regulated religious practices, and disciplined the clergy. Recognized by his biographers as the founder of the diocesan seminary, Dom Antônio showed great concern for the management of the Church's patrimonial goods, as evidenced in his correspondence with the parish priests. Utilizing Cultural History (CHARTIER, 1989) and critical discourse analysis (FAIRCLOUGH, 2001), the study aims to unveil the elements and adaptations of the restructuring project of Catholicism in Alagoas during the early decades of the Republic.

Keywords: Ultramontanism. Ecclesiastical Heritage. History of Alagoas.

THE STATUS OF MAGIC IN THE CANTERBURY TALES (14TH CENTURY)

2025-01-10T01:35:30+00:00

The book The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400), an English poet and also an active traveler, tells the story of a group of people on a pilgrimage to the tomb of Saint Thomas Becket. During this pilgrimage, each character tells stories. Produced at the end of the 14th century, the work is an important historical source from which we can draw various questions about the men and women of the Middle Ages, due to the diversity of characters presented and the positions they held (monks, knights, merchants, nuns, among others). In the stories told to pass the time, a variety of knowledge from the medieval period emerges, such as theology, medical science, commerce and - the main one for this work - magic. This article seeks to elucidate, from the representations contained in some stories in Chaucer's work, what position magical practices (such as alchemy and astrology) occupied in the imagination, as well as in the daily lives of the medieval people.